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"The law is a ass, a idiot," said the parish beadle Mr. Bumble in Dickens' "Oliver Twist." People of faith today have every reason to reach a similar conclusion, as endless head-butting with the secular legal system seems to occur with dismaying regularity. Whether it's the heartless inflexibility of the state and federal courts that discounted the moral dimensions of the Terri Schiavo case, or the long-running battles with secularists who want to stamp out every last vestige of religion from the public square, the list of cases that pit religion against secular forces grows apace. Believers are tuned to...

Cynthia Taylor and her husband, Randy Dalley, were awarded $3 million for injuries Taylor suffered when she hit her head in a fall during a breast exam. Staff photo by Steve Aldridge A mammogram machine such as the one used for Cynthia Taylor's exam sits in a Cumberland County courtroom on Thursday as lawyers, from left, Wade Byrd, Randy Gregory and Charles George confer with Judge Joseph John. The Cape Fear Valley Health System plans to appeal the judgment, said its lawyer, Charles George of Raleigh. Dalley said he plans to spend the money on rehabilitation for Taylor, who suffered...

The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition, Judge Edith Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, told the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School on February 28 [2003]. She said that the question of what is morally right is routinely sacrificed to what is politically expedient. The change has come because legal philosophy has descended to nihilism. "The integrity of law, its religious roots, its transcendent quality are disappearing."

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary July 31, 2004 President's Radio Address      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week we received encouraging reports that show our economy is gaining strength. Consumer confidence hit a two-year high in July. Existing home sales hit an all-time new record in June. The home ownership rate has hit a new all-time high. And since last summer, our economy has grown at a rate as fast as any in nearly 20 years.  Radio Address 2004200320022001  Radio Interviews 2004 These gains in our economy have come at a time when Americans are benefiting...

I was in my car this evening and happened to catch a part of the Tom Marr Show on WOR in NYC. Marr asserted that Louisiana is arguably the most anti-abortion State in the nation. It certainly has a large Black population, and Marr also asserted that Blacks are more anti-abortion, except when it comes to incest, than the population at large. Marr was angry. He wanted to know why Ambassador Alan Keyes wasn't down there campaigning for Terrell. Marr said he had spoken to Amabassador Keyes as recently as last night. And Marr seemed to know the reason that...

On November 10th, RenewAmerica received a report that MSNBC inadvertently ran an old promotion for "Alan Keyes is Making Sense" that advertised the show as though it were still airing. The individual who happened to be watching MSNBC accepted the promotion at face value and immediately wrote us to say, "I'm overjoyed that the Alan Keyes is Making Sense program is coming back on MSNBC! It's back on beginning Monday night in its usual time slot!" Had other "Keyesters" been watching the network, of course, we would have been swamped with equally elated messages.* As it turned out, the promotion...

… I have to pause for a minute here. I hear many introductions of myself – some of them are long and some of them are short. But as with many things in life, the most important thing about an introduction is not what it says but it's actually the person saying it. And I have to pause before I start because I feel that it's a very special moment for me to be here and to be able to say to all of you what has been on my heart for the longest time. I think we –...

Alan Keyes show tonight is on the "crisis in the Catholic Church." His guests have been priests and in the second panel an abuse victim, Catholic psychologist Ray Guarendi and Boston Herald columnist and radio talk show host Howie Carr.

Join Alan Monday through Thursday at 10 p.m. ET. Tonight: Who should the U.S. target with nuclear weapons? And we#146;ll debate a bill in Congress to allow non-U.S. citizens to remain in this country while applying for permanent residency.

Parnell Guilty Of Attempting To Buy A Child POSTED: 2:59 PM PST February 9, 2004 UPDATED: 6:33 PM PST February 9, 2004 OAKLAND, Calif. -- Kenneth Parnell, infamous for the 1972 kidnapping of Steven Stayner, was convicted Monday of trying to buy a child last year in what a prosecutor described as the would-be "last hurrah" of a long criminal career. Parnell, 72, was arrested in January 2003 on charges of trying to persuade a woman to get him a young boy for $500. A jury deliberated for less than two hours Monday before finding Parnell guilty. Prosecutor Tim Wellman...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ A lesbian couple can both be listed as parents on the birth certificate of the baby they're expecting in May, a judge has ruled. State officials said it was the first time that two women who were both physically tied to an unborn child had tried to make sure they were both listed on the birth certificate. One woman is carrying the child and her partner provided the egg, and they plan to raise the child together. The ruling issued Tuesday by Sussex County Family Court Judge James A. Farber means the unidentified women will share...

Assault And Kidnapping Hudson Pleads Innocent To Charges BY ANDREW McGREGOR, Staff Writer Tuesday January 7, 2003 The local club owner arrested at his home Friday evening stood for arraignment in Caledonia District Court Monday morning. Eric R. Hudson, 36, of Concord, pleaded innocent to a felony charge of kidnapping and a misdemeanor charge of simple assault. Caledonia District Court Hudson, owner of the Packing House Lounge in Lyndonville, the Dawg House Tavern in St. Johnsbury and Max Dance Hall in Sutton, could face up to 30 years in prison and a $50,000 fine if convicted of the kidnapping charge....

Excerpts: As part of the media's continuing series on how every criminal is innocent, except asbestos manufacturers and abortion clinic protesters, evidence tending to implicate Richardson included this: He led prosecutors to the scene of the crime. There were dirt and grass stains in the crotch of his undershorts. He confessed on videotape to being at the scene of the attack. He gave a detailed description of the attack. He admitted that the deep scratch wound on his cheek was inflicted by the jogger. But wait! The "Innocence Project" has produced an 11th-hour confession from a sixth rapist, Matias Reyes....

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was inadvertently given classified FBI interview reports by the government, and authorities had to go into his cell and recover them, according to court papers released Thursday. The government initially said two classified documents were in Moussaoui's possession, then acknowledged there were seven before finally determining there were 48. After several increasingly anxious letters from prosecutors, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema allowed U.S. marshals to recover all the FBI interview reports in Moussaoui's possession. All unclassified documents were ordered returned to the defendant. Moussaoui, 34, goes on trial Jan. 6...

Our Legal Circus Clowns, Dancing Bears, And Attorneys I'm trying to understand the American machinery of justice. It's hard going. Having been to high school, I think of our courts as being like an infallible bird dog that always gets its duck -- a shining light to the world, and a reproof to lesser nations, meaning all of them. But there a few potholes in that road. In every trial, the prosecutor tells the jury that the defendant is guilty. Equally invariably, the defense attorney insists that he is innocent. It follows that these officers of the court have a...

<p>Claim filed on behalf of slave descendants says they continue to suffer effects.</p> <p>WASHINGTON (AP) - Three U.S. corporations are accused of profiting from the slavery of African Americans in a lawsuit brought by a New York human rights activist, according to a news reportMonday.</p>

The Goliath Syndrome 2 Chronicles 7 14 quot;If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land...quot; We are witnesses to this country's greatest evil: a Justice system that has grown into a Goliath king wearing a crown of Injustice. Just as Goliath was, our Injustice system is now proud, arrogant and disdainful of the common Joe Citizen as lacking in legal powers. It occurs to me that this is...